Archive for Carol Braddick
Discussion: Selecting Coaches for a Global Organization
Let’s say you are working in a large global company and want to run a coach selection process to add to your pool of coaches around the world. And you’ve hired (increasingly common, btw) an external consultant to assist you in designing and running this process.
You and the consultant have designed an application [...]
What’s Your Relationship with Human Resources?
Enter the HR Business Partner. (HR BP)
Corporate HR has designed a process for engaging external coaches, which includes a role for local HR BP’s. Their role is to support engagements by: assisting the coachee and coachee’s manager with the decision to work with a coach; giving input to the diagnostic phase of the [...]
Your Client is Up for Promotion
Here is the scenario: You have met your coachee’s boss as part of the initial diagnostic phase of the coaching engagement. You see her/him around when you are on site, and check in with her/him as agreed in the work plan for the engagement.
During these conversations, she/he tells you that the [...]
So Many Coaches, So Little Time!
The client you’re working with may have had previous coaches, or work with other coaches at the same time as working with you, or ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ surprise ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ during your work together another coach appears on the scene. Here’s a real example:
Executive A begins to work with a specialist on presentation skills. She is working on [...]
